Inspiring teens and parents everywhere to understand each other better and to be the change they want to see in society.
Huge thanks to the lovely Emma Foster from Knowso – a company set up to inspire women to start their own businesses and enterprises – for talking to Make (Good) Trouble founder Daisy Cresswell.
In this video Q&A, Daisy shares her experiences of setting up the social enterprise and the challenges of finding funding and the value of building a supportive community around you.
You can find out about Knowso and read more about lots more inspiring women in business on their website: www.knowso.com
Raising Teens is back for a third series on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey – and, for the first time, on other BBC stations around the country – we’re going national! This special series focuses on lockdown and the pandemic. Host Guy Lloyd and teen reporter Lola Ray are back for series three. The first episode focuses on anxiety and how this pandemic is affecting teens and their families.
You can hear Raising Teens on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey at 7.30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays and online on BBC Sounds.
This first episode looks anxiety and how parents and carers – who may be struggling themselves – can help their teens with anxiety in lockdown, what is causing it and how teens, parents and carers can get support. There are the usual tips and information on where to get support, so it’s a super useful episode. Guests in this episode are psychotherapist Donna Peters-Lamb from Make Sense Psychotherapy, Mo Bham, Educational Psychologist and Head of Learning Support Services for Brighton & Hove and parent Sophie.
Another first for us and for BBC Radio Sussex is that the whole series is being recorded in lockdown with guests, host and producer, as well as all Lola and her teen interviewees – all recording remotely from their respective homes. Brighton and Hove City Council supports this series. They say it’s an “important and timely radio series that provides accessible information and ideas to help parents and families in lockdown.”
🔊 You can listen to all episodes of Raising Teens here
Where to get support
Young Minds’ information and help with anxiety
Young Minds’ Parents Helpline: 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday 9.30am – 4pm, free for mobiles and landlines)
For England-wide mental health services and support (11-25 years), including advice on depression, relationships, bullying and anxiety, please visit: www.findgetgive.com
If you are in a crisis and looking for support, please visit: www.findgetgive.com/crisis/
The Children’s Society advice on anxiety
Support in Sussex:
Brighton & Hove wellbeing service
CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in East Sussex: 01323 464222 – Monday to Thursday 8.30am – 5pm, Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm. Email: 0-19.SPOA@eastsussex.gov.uk
East Sussex helpline for parents and carers of young people with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability), available during school and setting closure period. Leave your name, telephone number and brief description of the kind of you support you need: 01273 481967
West Sussex educational psychology service community call-back, available during school and setting closure period: https://westsussex.local-offer.org/information_pages/609-educational-psychology-service-community-call-back
Health in Mind, NHS organisation providing courses and therapies to help with stress, anxiety and low mood in East Sussex https://www.healthinmind.org.uk
For a list of all Brighton and Hove services (11-25 years) please search: www.wheretogofor.co.uk
With VE Day being commemorated today, we thought it would be a good day to launch our online project about women living through the First World War. Women’s mental health was affected in both world wars, but little has been written about this.
Make (Good) Trouble CIC, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, is working on Project Poppy, exploring the mental health and wellbeing of women during the First World War as well as the perception of mental health in society at the time. We are working with a group of students from Hove Park School but since lockdown, we have had to move the project online. This means that we can invite everyone to get involved!
If you would like to follow the project, learning about the First World War and women’s role in it, we have created some online resources and information for you to follow. We’ll be adding to it each week with things to read, watch and listen to as well as creative and research tasks.
We’ve called it Project Poppy. Our focus is on interpreting the story of what happened to women during the First World War, about how the War affected their mental health (a story that hasn’t really been told), and to explore what that might mean to young people today. We want to find links between then and now. In this time of Covid-19 and lockdown, and of people volunteering to help those in need, there are also parallels to be explored.
There has been a huge focus on men and shell-shock in World War One but little information available about the effect on women’s mental health during that time. Our project aims to uncover the lives of women affected and create new narratives which will look at how mental health was perceived then, in comparison with today.
If you’d like to be part of this project, find out more here: Project Poppy.
Thank you!
Our teen reporter, Lola Ray, interviewed PC Roisin Vafaee from Sussex Police about how they are adapting to policing in lockdown. PC Vafaee is working as a children and young person’s adviser during the coronavirus lockdown.
Lola and PC Vafaee discussed why it’s so important for young people to understand the full impact of COVID 19.
We have heard from many parents worried about their teens breaking the lockdown rules. As the stay at home mandate looks set to continue for the foreseeable future, it’s imperative that we help young people understand why they need to comply.
If you’re worried about your young person, you can join us on our Facebook page, Raising Teens in Lockdown, where you’ll get support from our team, other parents, and experts.
Sussex Police are happy to answer any questions you have. They are working to support parents, carers and teens and help keep us safe during lockdown.